Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter V

Was a twentieth century Australian poet and prose writer.Vicki Viidikas was born and grew up in Sydn

Was a twentieth century Australian poet and prose writer.Vicki Viidikas was born and grew up in Sydney, Australia. Dropping out of school, she encountered the Balmain New South Wales poetry scene in the late 1960s. There she encountered, among others, Ken Bolton, John Forbes, Martin Johnston and John Tranter. The ‘counter culture’ and her travels in Asia, especially India, are recurrent subjects in her poetry. Her untimely death was much mourned in Australia's poetry community.

Is a television reporter who works as the San Jose Bureau reporter at KNTV in San Jose. Previously,

Is a television reporter who works as the San Jose Bureau reporter at KNTV in San Jose. Previously, she worked as a collaborator at Phoenix, Arizona's KSAZ-TV channel.

S a Russian author, the son of a high-ranking Soviet diplomat (who worked closely with Stalin). He s

S a Russian author, the son of a high-ranking Soviet diplomat (who worked closely with Stalin). He spent some of his childhood in Paris, which accounts for why much of his work has been translated from Russian into French, while comparatively little has r

Is a sociology and history author, and adult film writer, director, and website administrator. He is

Is a sociology and history author, and adult film writer, director, and website administrator. He is a co-author of The Dominant Man: The Pecking Order in Human Society, a sociology book which has been translated into five languages, and the sole author of The Nero Prediction, a historic novel about Emperor Nero and astrology, which won the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Award for "Best Historical Fiction."

Is an American author who was raised in the Flushing and Rosedale neighborhoods of Queens, New York.

Is an American author who was raised in the Flushing and Rosedale neighborhoods of Queens, New York. He is the author of a short-story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus and a novel, The Ecstatic. LaValle writes fiction primarily, though he has also written essays and book reviews for GQ, Essence Magazine, The Fader, and The Washington Post, among others.

Was a French composer. Massé studied at the Paris Conservatoire, winning the Prix de Rome in 1844 f

Was a French composer. Massé studied at the Paris Conservatoire, winning the Prix de Rome in 1844 for his cantata Le rénégat de Tanger before turning his attention to opera. While at the Conservatoire, Massé studied with Jaques Halévy. He wrote some twenty operas, including La chanteuse voilée (1850), followed by the more ambitious Galathée (1852) and Paul et Virginie.

Is a Canadian composer, conductor, bandurist, kobzar, recording artist and ethomusicologist. He was

Is a Canadian composer, conductor, bandurist, kobzar, recording artist and ethomusicologist. He was born April 4, 1960, in Sydney, NSW, Australia. He graduated from the Sydney University (1984), continuing post-graduate studies at the Sydney College of Ad

Was a French journalist who is famous for the manner of his death and its political consequences. Hi

Was a French journalist who is famous for the manner of his death and its political consequences. His tomb in Paris later became a fertility symbol. In December 1869, a dispute broke out between two Corsican newspapers, the radical La Revanche, inspired from afar by Grousset and the loyalist L'Avenir de la Corse, edited by an agent of the Ministry of Interior named Della Rocca. The invective of la Revanche concentrated on Napoleon I. On 30 December, l'Avenir published a letter sent to its editor by Prince Pierre Bonaparte, the great-nephew of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte

Is a Russian writer, one of the most acclaimed and successful to emerge in the post-Soviet period[ci

Is a Russian writer, one of the most acclaimed and successful to emerge in the post-Soviet period[citation needed]. His books usually carry the outward conventions of the science fiction genre, but are used to construct involved, multi-layered postmoderni

Was a French composer. He is best known for his operettas, particularly the lighter kind known as th

Was a French composer. He is best known for his operettas, particularly the lighter kind known as the "vaudeville-opérette". His thirty theatre works, composed between 1880 and 1902, also include pantomimes and ballets. His best-known piece, Les vingt-huit jours de Clairette, has remained in the repertory of French companies.

Was a French naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguis

Was a French naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist and literary critic.He was born in Brest. He studied naval medicine in Bordeaux. He traveled and lived in Polynesia (1903-1905) and China (1909-1914 and

Was a Russian-American former dissident Soviet journalist and an Eastern Orthodox priest.After movin

Was a Russian-American former dissident Soviet journalist and an Eastern Orthodox priest.After moving to the United States in 1975, he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship by an ukase of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on September 7, 1976, for "activities discrediting the rank of a Soviet citizen", becoming only the fifth person around that time to be so penalized, among them Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Was a Jamaican writer born in Kingston, Jamaica who wrote with an intent of influencing the younger

Was a Jamaican writer born in Kingston, Jamaica who wrote with an intent of influencing the younger generations.[1] He was the author of seven novels, three of which were aimed towards children, one play production, and several short stories. Two of his m

Was a French pianist and composer. Duvernoy, son of noted bass-baritone Charles-François Duvernoy (

Was a French pianist and composer. Duvernoy, son of noted bass-baritone Charles-François Duvernoy (1796–1872), was a student of Antoine François Marmontel, François Bazin and Mathurin Barbereau at the Conservatoire de Paris where he studied piano from 1886. He subsequently made his career as a piano virtuoso, a composer and professor of piano at the Conservatoire de Paris.

Was an Argentine intellectual, described by Jorge Luis Borges as la mujer más argentina ("the most

Was an Argentine intellectual, described by Jorge Luis Borges as la mujer más argentina ("the most Argentine woman"). Best known as an advocate for others and as publisher of the magazine Sur, she was also a writer and critic in her own right.She was born in Buenos Aires and was educated at home by a French governess. She would later write, "the alphabet-book in which I learned to read was French, as was the hand that taught me to draw those first letters."

Is a noted Cebuano dramatist.

Is a noted Cebuano dramatist.

Was a scholar, a noted Hindi-Sanskrit littérateur, and a journalist.A renowned scholar of Hindi and

Was a scholar, a noted Hindi-Sanskrit littérateur, and a journalist.A renowned scholar of Hindi and Sanskrit languages, he was also an eminent writer. He authored, edited and translated over hundred books in Hindi and English. He also edited several journals and magazines. He twice served as the President of the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan and was also the Chairman of the Sahitya Parishad.

Was a Maithili poet and a Sanskrit writer. He was born in the village of Bishphi in Madhubani distri

Was a Maithili poet and a Sanskrit writer. He was born in the village of Bishphi in Madhubani district of Bihar state, India. He was son of Ganapati. The name Vidyapati is derived from two Sanskrit words, Vidya (knowledge) and Pati (master), connoting thereby, a man of knowledge.Vidyapati's poetry was widely influential in centuries to come, in the Hindustani as well as Bengali and other Eastern literary traditions. Indeed, the language at the time of Vidyapati, the prakrit-derived late abahatta, had just began to transition into early versions of the Eastern languages, Bengali, Oriya, Maithili, etc. Thus, Vidyapati's influence on making these languages has been described as "analogous to that of Dante in Italy and Chaucer in England."

Is a Finnish journalist and television hosting entrepreneur (Awell Entertainment Oy). She used to wo

Is a Finnish journalist and television hosting entrepreneur (Awell Entertainment Oy). She used to work as a sport news hostess for television channel Nelonen. Today she is the hostess for entertainment news on MTV3 television channel.In 2004 Avellan was a candidate in European Parliament elections for the centre right National Coalition Party.

A documentary filmmaker, film historian, writer, educationist and researcher.Her close friendships w

A documentary filmmaker, film historian, writer, educationist and researcher.Her close friendships with Satyajit Ray, Louis Malle, Mrinal Sen and other film personalities have given her a unique perspective into Indian cinema and influenced her work. Her body of work has shaped how India is viewed by Indian and non-Indian filmmakers.

A noted writer from Rajasthan and a recepeient of Padma Shri award. He is also recipient of several

A noted writer from Rajasthan and a recepeient of Padma Shri award. He is also recipient of several other awards such as Sahitya Akademi Award and Sahitya Chudamani Award.He has more than 800 short stories to his credit, which are translated into English and other languages. He is co-founder of Rupayan Sansthan with late Komal Kothari, an institute that documents Rajasthani folk-lore, arts and music. His literary works include Bataan ri Phulwari (garden of tales),

A 1986 batch Indian Foreign Service bureaucrat, an Indian novelist and diplomat who has served in Tu

A 1986 batch Indian Foreign Service bureaucrat, an Indian novelist and diplomat who has served in Turkey, the United States, Ethiopia and Great Britain.He is presently, since August 2006,[2] posted in Pretoria as India's Deputy High Commissioner to South Africa. His debut novel, Q and A, tells the story of how a penniless waiter in Mumbai becomes the biggest quiz show winner in history. Critically acclaimed in India and abroad, this international bestseller is being translated into 41 languages. It was shortlisted for the Best First Book by the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and won South Africa’s Exclusive Books Boeke Prize 2006, as well as the Prix Grand Public at the 2007 Paris Book Fair.

An Indian writer who has won awards and critical acclaim for his novels and short stories. He is mar

An Indian writer who has won awards and critical acclaim for his novels and short stories. He is married to writer Melanie Abrams, who, like Chandra, teaches creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley. Chandra currently divides his time between Mumbai (Bombay), India and Oakland, California. He is often confused with his namesake Vikram A Chandra, journalist and author of The Srinagar Conspiracy.Chandra received his high school education at Mayo College in Ajmer, Rajasthan, and attended St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai. As an undergraduate student, he transferred to the United States. He graduated from Pomona College in Claremont, California, with a magna cum laude B.A. in English (concentration in Creative Writing). Chandra then attended film school at Columbia University in New York, leaving halfway through to begin work on his first novel. He received his M.A. from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins in 1987.

Is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist.

Is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist.Seth is now best known for his novels, though he has characterised himself as a poet first and novelist second. He has published five volumes of poetry. Hi

Was a prominent Croatian writer. His numerous novels and stories deal with economic-social and polit

Was a prominent Croatian writer. His numerous novels and stories deal with economic-social and political problems of the past and the present of Istria. The most significant include: Insignificant people (1900), become parched source (1904), In doubt (1918), the hero of the sea (1939) and Dannunziade (1946). The same topics faced in the dramas: Winter sun (1902) and In guard (1923). In 1952 Car Emin published a volume of memories entitled Left Days, containing also its per diem one.